“What do you think of Richard Dawkins’ argument for atheism in The God Delusion?” Dr. William Lane Craig responds with a devasting critique of Dawkins’s illogical argumentation:
This argument is jarring because the atheistic conclusion that “Therefore, God almost certainly does not exist” seems to come suddenly out of left field. You don’t need to be a philosopher to realize that that conclusion doesn’t follow from the six previous statements.
Indeed, if we take these six statements as premises of an argument implying the conclusion “Therefore, God almost certainly does not exist,” then the argument is patently invalid. No logical rules of inference would permit you to draw this conclusion from the six premises.
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So Dawkins’ argument for atheism is a failure even if we concede, for the sake of argument, all its steps. But, in fact, several of these steps are plausibly false.
I owe Lewis a great debt. In my late teens and early twenties I read everything of his I could get my hands on, and read some of his paperbacks and essays several times over. There are sentences, and some whole passages, I know pretty much by heart.
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Someone who converted to the Christian faith through reading Mere Christianity, and who never moved on or grew up theologically or historically, would be in a dangerous position when faced even with proper, non-skeptical historical investigation, let alone the regular improper, skeptical sort. Lewis didn’t give such a person sufficient grounding in who Jesus really was.
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As another imperfect apologist, I salute a great master, and can only hope that in sixty years’ time children yet unborn will say of me that, despite all my obvious and embarrassing failings, I too was used, in however small a way, to bring people under the influence and power, and to the love and kingdom, of the same Jesus Christ
Well-known evangelical pastor Rick Warren and atheist Sam Harris recently met at Warren’s Saddleback Church in California for a four-hour discussion of the question, Is God real?
WARREN: Sam, do you believe human beings have a spirit?
HARRIS: There are many reasons not to believe in a naive conception of a soul that kind of floats off the brain at death and goes somewhere else. But I do not know.
WARREN: Can you have spirituality without a spirit?
HARRIS: You can feel yourself to be one with the universe.
WARREN: OK, then why can’t you just take the next step? Because right now you’re talking in extremely nonrational terms.
HARRIS: There’s nothing irrational about it. You can close your eyes in meditation and lose the sense of your physical body, totally. Many people draw from that the metaphysical conclusion that “I’m just spirit, and I can transcend the body.” That’s not the only conclusion you have to draw from that experience, and I don’t think it’s the best conclusion.
WARREN: You’re more spiritual than you think. You just don’t want a boss. You don’t want a God who tells you what to do.
HARRIS: I don’t want to pretend to be certain about anything I’m not certain about.
Rick, last thoughts?
WARREN: I believe in both faith and reason. The more we learn about God, the more we understand how magnificent this universe is. There is no contradiction to it. When I look at history, I would disagree with Sam: Christianity has done far more good than bad. Altruism comes out of knowing there is more than this life, that there is a sovereign God, that I am not God. We’re both betting. He’s betting his life that he’s right. I’m betting my life that Jesus was not a liar. When we die, if he’s right, I’ve lost nothing. If I’m right, he’s lost everything. I’m not willing to make that gamble.
Answers in Genesis, whose founder and president is Ken Ham, is building a 50,000-sq. ft. Creation Museum in northern Kentucky to demonstrate the scientific validity of creationism and the impossibility of evolution, which is “the root of most of modern society’s evils.” It is scheduled to open on Memorial Day.
“James White has done it again. This timely book handles the infidel ravings of people dedicated to destroy Christianity with care and precision. It is a devastating refutation of an outrageous claim.” —Dr. Jay Adams
“James White has done a splendid job of answering questions that would have been raised in the minds of thoughtful inquirers by the sensationalistic but dubious documentary ‘The Lost Tomb of Jesus’ by James Cameron and Simcha Jacobovici. Readers who think Christians are afraid of hard facts will have to think again after reading this rapidly produced but superbly informed and rigorously reasoned rejoinder.” —Dr. Ligon Duncan
“James White has applied his considerable skill as a Bible scholar and apologist to the task of debunking the latest bunk in ‘the historical Jesus vs. the biblical Christ’ false dichotomy so loved by theological liberals. The new bunk in question is the film The Lost Tomb of Jesus and the pseudo-scholarship and wacky-science that precipitated it. In a word, Dr. White readily shows that Christianity is perfectly safe from this lame attempt to stab it under the fifth rib.” —Dr. Robert P. Martin
“The Lost Tomb of Jesus documentary is a direct attack upon the reliability of the Resurrection of Christ and that makes it a direct attack upon the heart of Christianity. James White knows it. Here he cuts through the spin, exposing layers of inconsistencies and frequently turning his readers back to Scripture. But this book’s enduring contribution to the church will be the reaffirmation that history and theology are inseparably bound.” —Tony Reinke
“James White has earned a reputation among evangelicals as a careful biblical scholar and as a skillful defender of the faith. His reasoned response to the alleged burial tomb of Jesus exposes this theory’s numerous unwarranted speculations, errors, and contradictions. This brief book also reminds people of the Gospel message and of the authentic case for the bodily resurrection of Jesus Christ.” —Dr. Kenneth Samples
“How times remain the same; and, our need for valiant warriors stays constant. James White is to be applauded for taking pen in hand to fight against this hoax while directing all to the faith once delivered.” —Dr. Mike Renihan
See our extensively updated post, Jesus’ Tomb Found?, where we have been tracking hundreds of blog responses. There’s still been a lot of ongoing discussion, especially on Mark Goodacre’s blog and Darrell Bock’s blog.
At the Walter Martin Ministries Blog, Jill Martin Rische, daughter of the well-known apologist and cult specialist Walter Martin, expresses her concern regarding Christians’ ignorance of Mormonism. She shares ten things that most Christians don’t know, but should.
Mormons can become gods and goddesses.
Goddesses will spend eternity in full submission to their god-husband.
Mormon women will give birth “forever and ever” to spirit-babies.
Mormon men can have multiple wives in heaven-eternal polygamy.
Heavenly Father is an exalted man who lives with his goddess wife, Heavenly Mother, on a planet near the great star Kolob.
American Indians are descendants of the wicked Lamanites, who were Israelites that God cursed with dark skin.
God the Father had sex with Mary to conceive Jesus, who is the half brother of Lucifer.
All Christian churches are an abomination.
Mormons need 4 secret handshakes to get into the Celestial heaven.
Joseph Smith revealed that the actual Garden of Eden is in Jackson County, Missouri.
Alvin Plantinga, perhaps the most influential Christian philosopher in the world today, has issued a devastating review of The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins. It is not to be missed.
Here are a couple snippets from Plantinga’s review:
Now despite the fact that this book is mainly philosophy, Dawkins is not a philosopher (he’s a biologist). Even taking this into account, however, much of the philosophy he purveys is at best jejune. You might say that some of his forays into philosophy are at best sophomoric, but that would be unfair to sophomores; the fact is (grade inflation aside), many of his arguments would receive a failing grade in a sophomore philosophy class. This, combined with the arrogant, smarter-than-thou tone of the book, can be annoying. I shall put irritation aside, however and do my best to take Dawkins’ main argument seriously. . . .
The God Delusion is full of bluster and bombast, but it really doesn’t give even the slightest reason for thinking belief in God mistaken, let alone a “delusion.”
The naturalism that Dawkins embraces, furthermore, in addition to its intrinsic unloveliness and its dispiriting conclusions about human beings and their place in the universe, is in deep self-referential trouble. There is no reason to believe it; and there is excellent reason to reject it.
A group of atheists known as The Rational Response Squad, who claims to be fighting to free humanity from the mind disorder known as theism, has issued a “Blasphemy Challenge.” This challenge invites 1001 young people to damn themselves to hell by denying the Holy Spirit and posting the video on YouTube. In return they will receive a free copy of the DVD The God Who Wasn’t There. The one stipulation is that the individuals must use the words, “I deny the Holy Spirit.”
Why? Because, according to Mark 3:29 in the Holy Bible, “Whoever blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will never be forgiven; he is guilty of an eternal sin.” Jesus will forgive you for just about anything, but he won’t forgive you for denying the existence of the Holy Spirit. Ever. This is a one-way road you’re taking here.
Leaving aside the fact that this horribly misunderstands the biblical teaching on the blasphemy against the Holy Spirit, Christians are responding to this challenge. Many Christian youth are posting videos on YouTube testifying of their faith in the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Ergun Caner, former Muslim and president of Liberty Theological Seminary, has invited The Rational Response Squad and other atheists to debate the issues publicly.
More top scientists from many of the major universities are questioning the validity of Darwin’s theory of evolution, and they are making it public by signing their names to this list.
“What do you think of Richard Dawkins’ argument for atheism in The God Delusion?” Dr. William Lane Craig responds with a devasting critique of Dawkins’s illogical argumentation:
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